Genesis 49:3-5

Evangelical Heritage Version

³ Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might,
and the beginning of my vigor,
excelling in dignity and excelling in power.

⁴ Boiling over like water, you shall not excel,
because you went up to your father’s bed,
and you defiled it.
He went up to my couch!

⁵ Simeon and Levi are brothers.
Their daggers^[a] are weapons of violence.